The second book in the Johnny Maxwell books. While still fun it's not as good as the other books in the series. ( )

Twelve year old Johnny Maxwell is cutting through the cemetery one day with a friend when he knocks on the door of a tomb and the inhabitant answers the door. Johnny is the only one with the unique ability to wake up the dead and soon they are bothering him to stop the proposed development of their cemetery for a large corporation's offices. Once they discover they can leave the cemetery, go to the movies, and travel over telephone wires to chat on late night radio talk shows everyone else starts feeling that something isn't quite right around town too. As always, Pratchett's twists and turns of plot and conversation are hilarious while telling an enjoyable tale about living life to the fullest even after you're dead. ( )

Johnny is a young teen who lives in a small town in England, has a loving but oblivious family, endures school, has a few odd friends, and … sees dead people. On a shortcut home from school one day, Johnny makes acquaintances with a ghost in the village cemetery. Soon Johnny meets the rest of the graveyard denizens, and is enlisted in a campaign to save their home from being bulldozed to make way for a new housing development. Johnny and the Dead is the second of a young adult trilogy and is written by the grandmaster of fantasy/satire, Terry Pratchett. While I enjoyed this book, I did not find it anywhere near the caliber of Pratchett’s adult novels or of his young adult Tiffany Aching Trilogy. ( )

just marvelous; not at all creepy despite the cover